Collapsed Swiss bank Credit Suisse is alleged to have withheld details of its historic links with World War II-era Nazi clients, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). + Get the most important Swiss news directly in your inbox A fresh look at Credit Suisse archives has revealed evidence of previously unknown Nazi accounts, including one account linked to the notorious German SS elite army unit that committed numerous atrocities during WWII. +Read more about the Holocaust assets controversy Former United States prosecutor Neil Barofsky is sifting through 3,600 boxes of files that were not seen by two investigatory panels in the 1990s, the newspaper reports. Credit Suisse appointed Barofsky as an independent ombudsman to probe Nazi-era links in 2021, but later removed him from the position. Barofsky was reinstated in 2023 after Credit Suisse was acquired by rival UBS in an emergency takeover earlier that year. WSJ says it has seen a letter written by Barofsky in ...
